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Food Fight! Codex vs. Organic Food

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

If anyone had a shred of doubt that Codex is creeping toward us on all of its loathsome legs as quickly as possible, rather like a venomous centipede, that doubt should vanish by the time you finish this blog. Each of the segments of the Codex creature may appear to be unaware of what the others are doing, but the net result is forward movement coordinated by some ganglion of control somewhere. Where? I don’t know, but I do know that the effect is one I don’t like one bit.

This week and next, the Joint House/Senate Appropriations Committee will be finalizing the 2007 Agriculture Spending Bill. Using the thinly veiled excuse of meeting the requirements of a Federal Judge who ruled in favor of an Organic Blueberry farmer in Maine in Harvey v. Veneman that the USDA organic standards violated the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act and that synthetic materials could not be added to food, the USDA is once again trying to destroy organic food purity by submitting a Draft Amendment to the Joint Committee which would BRING US ORGANIC FARMING STANDARDS INTO COMPLIANCE WITH CODEX ONES despite the fact that these standards are highly damaging to the American Organic standards. They will allow the following without labeling or identification:
– Pesticides to be used in the growing of organic food
– Synthetic materials to be included in organic foods
– Cattle can be treated with antibiotics and then administratively converted back to “organic
– Large percentage of non-organic feed for supposedly organic animals

This is the same imitative that the same USDA and the same industries attempted to bring us in 1997-78 when they wanted to use toxic sludge containing cadmium and other heavy metals as “fertilizer” for organics along with the ever-popular pesticides, herbicides (many of which contain mercury, by the way) and veterinary drugs for animals.

This is the same initiative that is leading to the attempt to undermine, gut or overturn DSHEA (by the way, if you haven’t sent your letters to Congress to protect DSHEA, please do so now). The target here, however, is yet another set of protective regulations embodied in the Organic Foods Production Act which give us the option of purchasing a reliably healthy, non-polluted, non-GMO, non-toxic food supply.

If you value your right to make meaningful choices about your health AND if you value your health AND if you see the relationship between your food and your health, NOW IS THE HOUR! Write to Congress now to impress upon them how important retaining meaningful organic food standards are to you!
You know, if I were reading this and other blogs and emails the Natural Solutions Foundation sends out I might get weary: there are so many issues, so many times I get asked to write to Congress, so many different problems. And that is exactly the point. If the issues can be fragmented and we can be driven into apathy, Codex and its organizational brethren, global control and loss of personal freedoms, win. The Bigs, who have enough lawyers and publicists and campaign managers, win. Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Biotechna, Big Chema and Big Medica get to set the rules, set the standards and reap the benefits. Your illness and needless suffering and mine are not even collateral damage because they profit two Bigs on that list: Big Pharma and Big Medica.
So yes, there are a lot of letters to write and there will be more. And yes, there will be a lot of issues coming at you. And yes, this war is being fought on many fronts. Remember Jefferson, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”. Which side would each and every one of the Founding Fathers and Mothers (yes, there were women partitions, too) have been on? Corporate greed and the apathy that allows it to flourish or the battle for our bodies and our rights under our own control?

So please contact Congress NOW! We have about 1 week on this one, perhaps less. “Urgent” does not even begin to describe this one!
Oh, two more things: don’t forget about starting a Health Freedom Meetup (go to http:.//healthfreedom.meetup.com to get started). You pick the time, date and location. Let people in your area know about it by email, word of mouth and some posters in health food stores, etc. Schedule it with me and I will do a phone visit via speaker phone and provide materials to make organizing easier. Grass roots give us the strength we need. Spreading the word is absolutely crucial. It’s a numbers game: the number of their dollars versus the numbers of our voices! If we have enough numbers, we win. If not, we loose. It’s that simple.

The other item is donation to our $10,000 fund. We are less than $800 away from our fund raising goal. If you have not yet done so, please donate generously. Think about what having dedicated health freedom warriors on your side is worth to you and share that amount with us. Consider making a monthly pledge so that we can spend our time on the battle, not on finding the resources to stay in the battle.

Thanks for you continuing active involvement. Your emails and calls are inspiring and heart warming. I learn from them every day and I appreciate the new ways of fighting this war coming from you.

Yours in health and organic freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

Posted in Activism, CODEX Consequences, Legislation to Oppose, Medical Hazards, The Law & CODEX | 7 Comments »

Adapt or Die!

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Adaptation is the process by which a stressed system attempts to regulate itself in response to a new set of factors in order to achieve balance and harmony (often called “homeostasis”). Countries adapt, plants and animals adapt, social organizations (like cultures) adapt and so do we humans.
In fact, health promoting substances called “adaptagens” (which enhance regulation) are used in natural medicine because they help the body increase or decrease whatever is out of balance.

The good news, then, is that we are, individually and collectively, wondrously adaptable. Up to a point. Please prepare yourself and click here to see a graphic and heartbreaking example of what happens when we stretch the adaptive rubber band so far that it snaps. Because that is what we are doing with our bodies by exposing them to hundreds of thousands of toxins never encountered by any living thing prior to the last hundred years including deadly pesticides, radiation at levels unknown in nature, toxic, untested chemicals, new organisms and weird DNA.

How much can an organism, a child, a gene, an organ, a marriage, a brain or a society take before its adaptive abilities are overwhelmed and the stress is greater than the compensation for the stress that the system can manage. The result? Damage to the ability of the organism to function, self protect and self correct. If the stress is great enough to show, we call it by the name of some illness or another: cancer, social decay, infertility, depression, skin eruptions, rising crime rate, looting, suicide, drought, autism, monster storms. If the damage is greater still, the result is death of the society, the child, the mind, the heart, the planet. The disorder and dysfunction (and the diagnosis) depends on the system being stressed but the principle is the same.

What can you do about it? Reduce the load. Reduce the number of stressors that the system has to adapt to and give the adaptive systems help, support and nutrition. That means Read labels!
1. Eat organic food. Yes, it costs more. Think of what your will save on co-pays and hospital bills!
2. Eat non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food. We are building our new website, www.EatSafeEatSmart.info so you can come to the site for healthy alternatives to familiar choices.
3. Avoid trans fats. Use pure, unrefined organic coconut oil or extra virgin organic olive oil) for cooking.
4. Take adequate amounts of high potency, pure vitamins and minerals. Cheap one a day nutrients are not worth much (and that’s what they cost, too, because they do not compare at all to the high quality, high potency nutrients you really need.
5. Use all natural, non-toxic cleaning products for your house, your clothes and yourself.
6. Quit smoking
7. Drink adequate water and avoid carbonated beverages. Fizzy drinks will make your body more acid, setting you up for toxic events.
8. Do a supervised detoxification program with nutrients, sauna (if possible) and herbs so that you can remove the built up toxins from your body. This is not a do it yourself procedure.
9. Do not drink liquid from a plastic bottle which is soft enough to change its shape when you squeeze it. That means that it has phthalates in it. Phthalates act like unopposed estrogen and wreak havoc with the entire body of both born and unborn people.
10. If you identify contaminants or dangers in your home, office, car, etc. please take the action necessary to remover it (or remove yourself if that is the only way to protect yourself).
11. No perfume, no fragrance no matter what. In aother blog I will discuss the importance of NOT using perfumes if you are trying to reduce the toxic load of your body to give it more adaptagenic potential than it has now because of the toxic load you are carrying.

In order to get and stay healthy, there is no doubt in my mind: we need to enhance our ability to adapt by removing the things that keep us from doing well adaptively.

Remember, property and habits are much less important than health and health freedom. You can replace the first, but you can never replace the second.

Yours in irreplaceable health and freedom,
Dr. Laibow

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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Adaption is the process by which a stressed system attempts to regulate itself in response to a new set of factors in order to achieve balance and harmony (often called “homeostasis”). Countries adapt, plants and animals adapt, social organization such as cultures adapt and so do we humans.
In fact, health promoting substances called “adaptogens” (which enhance regulation) are used in natural medicine because they help the body increase or decrease whatever is out of balance.

The good news, then, is that we are individually and collectively wondrously adaptable. Up to a point. Please prepare yourself and click here to see a graphic and heartbreaking example of what happens when we stretch the adaptive rubber band so far that it snaps. Because that is what we are doing with our bodies by exposing them to hundreds of thousands of toxins never encountered by any living thing prior to the last hundred years including deadly pesticides, radiation at levels unknown in nature, toxic, untested chemicals, new organisms and weird DNA.

How much can an organism, a gene, an organ, a marriage a brain or a society take before its adaptive abilities are overwhelmed and the stress is greater than the compensation for the stress that the system can manage. The result? Damage to the ability of the organism to function, self protect and self correct. If the stress is great enough to show, we call it by the name of some illness or another: cancer, social decay, infertility, depression, psoriasis, rising crime rate, looting, suicide, drout, autism, monster storms. The disorder and dysfunction (and the diagnosis) depends on the system being stressed but the principle is the same.

What can you do about it? Reduce the load. Reduce the number of stressors that the system has to adapt to and give the adaptive systems help, support and

Posted in The Law & CODEX | 3 Comments »

Please Protect Your Children From Teen Screen

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Teen Screen. Sounds friendly, helpful, upbeat, right? Well, it’s not. It is a marketing technique to addict and control our children by using bogus “suicide screening” questions and then, if a child identifies some of these universal experiences as their own, they are sucked into a vortex of procedure and misuse of professional words and ideas to make sure that huge numbers of children are doped and made dopey. Make them dopey enough, and you will make them damaged and dead, too. Oh, by the way, there is no need to have parental approval for this doping and dieing in more and more places, by the way. Object and you can loose your children to the power of the state. The list of abominations goes on and on and on here. Let me remind you that these psychoactive drugs are dangerous toxins and have never been tested for long term effects in human, especially not on the developing brains of children Six to 13 weeks is about average for a test protocol for psychoactive drugs despite the fact that these horrific substances are addictive and used for years on end on children. They are often used in combination, too, despite the absolute lack of clinical testing to assure anyone at all that these are safe procedures.

In case I did not mention it, I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist by training as well as an Adult Psychiatrist. I know whereof I speak because I practiced out-patient psychiatry without drugs for more than 35 years before I closed my practice in order to take on the Body Politic: health freedom. I know first hand what these drugs do and I know first hand what is, and is not, known about the use and damage of these powerful mind altering chemicals and their impact on brains in development. I also know with the certainty of long practice that orthomolecular psychiatry, NeuroBioFeedback, clean food and psychotherapy are powerful, non-toxic, empowering tools to help with real issues of cognition, affect and attention.

I know, too, that these techniques are not very good for the biggest, and meanest, business in the world, Big Pharma. Not good at all. How much does a bottle of B3 (Niacin) cost compared to any of the dangerous doping compounds the patent medicine companies have convinced us are essential for life and health? You do the math. Or, if you’d rather look at some really interesting math done by some pretty smart people, take a look at the real story on Teen Screen and, scrolling down, take a look at the $30B which the Teen Screen poisoning of our children’s brains and bodies will result in for Big Pharma!

Here is my advice for you if you have kids: Do Not Allow Teen Screen Anywhere Near Your Child. Teach your child to resist the blandishments, the Video coupons and the Pizza Parties that are used as inducements for this diabolical program. Just Say No! and teach your kids to say “NO!”, too.

If a child is mentally ill, there are ways to screen and to help him or her that do not involve blandishments and enticements and treatments that do not involve poisoning your child’s developing brain. Love your child. Keep him/her free of mind-bending poisons with addictive and other dangerous potentials. Please.

Yours in health and freedom from profitable poisons,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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Sharing the Wealth – Yours!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

We have reached Day 19/30 of the Natural Solutions Foundation Fund Raising Drive and your generosity has brought us $7923. Thank you, one and all.

General Stubblebine and I are totally dedicated to protecting, preserving and defending our health freedom. We eat, sleep, drink and breath health freedom. It’s that important to us to make sure that we all have the opportunity to make whatever health choices we think best. In fact, we closed our medical practice to work on this full time (or rather full time plus!)

You probably know that we need your help with Congressional letters, sharing information via email, organizing meetups and the like. When we ask for it, your response is fantastic! And you probably also know that we depend upon you for your generous donations so that we can continue this battle for your health freedoms and for ours.

Since we are asking you for money, it seemed only right that we take a few minutes to share the 12 top reasons that make it a great idea to give generously to the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Remember, you can make your donation by credit card, PayPal or check. (If you want to make a tax deductible donation you may do so by making your check out to NISLAPP [which stands for National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy] and writing “Natural Solutions Foundation” on the memo line. Mail it to:

Natural Solutions Foundation
P.O. Box 722
Maryville, MO 64468
U.S.A.

So here are my top twelve reasons that it makes sense to support health freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation:

1. Every single penny you donate to the Natural Solutions Foundation goes directly toward the health freedom fight. There are no salaries and no overhead costs like rent and utilities, etc., because they are donated.

2. General Stubblebine and I are experienced health and freedom fighters so we know how to fight this war through strategic alliances and international collaboration.

3. The Natural Solutions Foundation is beholden to nothing but the truth and no one but our supporters.

4. The Natural Solutions Foundation carries your battle everywhere: to the airwaves, the internet, Congress, the International Community and anywhere else it needs to go without ceasing. Last week, for General Stubblebine and I were interviewed on 15 national and 2 local radio shows and 1 web cast.

5. The Natural Solutions Foundation is broadly focused on ALL the health freedom issues confronting us and was the first health freedom organization to alert the public to the fact that Codex was about much more than just vitamins and minerals.

6. The Natural Solutions Foundation is willing to tackle the toughest issues fearlessly whether others agree with us or not. They usually come around after we have been breaking ground for a while.

7. General Stubblebine and I travel extensively wherever we can shed light on the issues. We reported on the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome, attend and speak at Public Hearings, lecture to lay and professional groups all over North America and bring the latest news and information back to you. We’ll be going to Bonn for the Codex Nutrition Committee meeting in November.

8. The Natural Solutions Foundation investigates and dissects disinformation, spin and propaganda for you and then offers you the truth as we understand it. We tell you everything we know: there are no secrets and no hidden agendas.

9. We support you fully when we ask you to do something (such as organize a Health Freedom Meetup), we are there with support, phone-in participation, information and anything else you tell us would be helpful to you.

10. We work very hard to keep the website current so that you have up-to-the minute information to make decisions with.

11. The Natural Solutions Foundation offers meaningful, well-thought-out action steps at the local and national levels so we do more than just tell you where the dangers are. We tell you how to combat them.

12. The Natural Solutions Foundation brings easy activism which can save your life with initatives like the

    Eat Safe, Eat Smart Buy-Cott

to help you say “NO!” to GMOs and make healthy food choices for yourself your family.

Gerbers likes to say, “Babies are our business, our only business”. We modify it to say, “Health Freedom is our passion, our only passion”.

Please support the Natural Solutions Foundation with generous donations. We look to you to tell us how important our work is to you by participating in the action steps and by donating the money we need to keep operationg.

Perhaps you might consider making an on-going contribution. The credit card form allows you to do that.

Perhaps you just want to give a one time gift. Either way, please give generously so that we can continue to work for you and your health freedom.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

PS: Think for a moment what your natural health choices are worth to you. What would you pay to get them back if you lost them? Please donate now. REL

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